· Public charity
Calvin University
The mission of CALVIN UNIVERSITY is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 160 grants below total $2,693,139 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $78,321,982 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,628,843 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $151k
- $10k–50k135 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $74,538 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY | $61,858 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $60,756 |
| PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $52,500 |
| ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $50,375 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $46,500 |
| SCHOLARLEADERS INTERNATIONAL | $40,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $37,500 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $37,495 |
| COOPERATIVE CHRISTAN MINISTRY IN HIGHER EDUCATION INC | $25,000 |
| HOLY CROSS EV LUTHERAN CHURCH- ST LOUIS MO | $25,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | $25,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR PENTECOSTAL STUDIES | $25,000 |
| POINT UNIVERSITY INC | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
201 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2025, 120 since wound down; 75 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FTFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY6× · 2019–2025 · $180k · revenue +9%
Samford University4× · 2022–2025 · $117k · revenue +1%- EUEmory University6× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +54%
Funded once
NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTERone grant, 2022 · $32k · revenue +22%- PCPenn Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +33%
- IPIGLESIA PRESBITERIANA DE LA MISINone grant, 2024 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
Trinity Western University's mission is to produce positive, goal-oriented graduates with thoroughly Christian minds-growing disciples of Jesus Christ who glorify God through fulfilling the Great Commission, serving God and people in…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheaton College and the most unlike its peers is Modus Church Iglesis Modus. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
120 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 120 of the 404 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Scholar Leaders International ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds THE BANQUET NETWORK ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY MINISTRY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Iskali ↗
- Who funds DURHAMCARES INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone University ↗
- Who funds KUYPER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS IN CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY INC ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EDEN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Wabash College · American Association for the Advancement of Science · Council of Independent Colleges · Barnabas Foundation · The Robert D and Patricia E Kern Family Foundation Inc · John Templeton Foundation · Walker Scholarship Grant · The Scudder Association Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · The Chatlos Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Calvin University funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.